Spinach, sweet potatoes, sprouts: NOT health food

The eating plan I follow is called The Original Diet. The plant foods in this eating plan are very carefully chosen to follow clues

Her name is Nature

I spent decades trying to decide who to follow that I could trust without fail. Finally, it hit me that I was looking for answers in all the wrong places– it was not a who, it was an “It.” Her name is Nature, and some people still remember her – she evolved us. The great [...]

In “awe” of Mother Nature

I feel a personal nostalgia for NASA, having been the Advance Technical Studies representative of the Guidance and Control Division at Jet Propulsion Laboratory many years ago. My work and publications in the area of unmanned planetary landers

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What Do We Really Know About Health?

We “know” a lot, and most of it is nonsense. Empowering a person to take action on faulty knowledge is a really dumb idea.

A lot of talk about sugar. What does it mean for fruit?

Whole, ripe, raw, sweet fruit is certainly on the list of food we’re evolved to eat, and no doubt our sweet taste buds were an incentive to gather fruit.

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“Bio-individuality” Are we all different?

Bio-individuality, as applied to diet, is a widely accepted concept, concluding that there is no one diet that fits all. I find this conclusion quite puzzling, because, for every other living species on the planet, there is at least one diet that does fit each and every member.

Breast milk without the baby

Nature, in her infinite wonder, provides a backup for mothers that are unable to breastfeed their babies.

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Plants can think and feel ….. really?

As hard as it may be to believe, evidence from the science community is mounting that, like animals, plants are also capable of feeling pain, thinking, and defending themselves.

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The path to wellness

As someone who has researched and published in the nascent field of nature-based primary illness prevention, I have seen mass confusion as to what constitute s a wellness plan.

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Live by Mother Nature’s rules, or suffer the consequences

I do not understand the concept of a World Meditation Day. It seems there is a belief that if humans send out positive thoughts on that day, it will have a positive impact on nature. I am not aware that nature needs our help. The planet is not in trouble, we are

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Nature’s Food Plate

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(un)Pick Your Poison

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